I Want To Get Good
In which I try to get good at a new thing
I’ve decided to write well.
Now, I know the first step traditionally is to move to Paris or a small American town—you can get away with NYC if you’ve got old money—and preferably not be employed in B2B SaaS, but I don’t have that kind of dedication. I like money, I have suburban tastes, and I like my neighbors like I like my comments—anonymous.
So, I’m going to try another tactic: practice.
I’ve been blogging once or twice a month on statistics (which you call “data science” when you’re trying to get a job) for a few years now, but I’m going to write more frequently now. My goal is to put out a blog three out of every seven days.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I’ll write up three experimentation techniques every week, like in the old blogs. I have a limited supply of these! But I realized I had a lot of thoughts about industry tools, practices, news, etc., and just listing the ideas in my little Kanban board made it clear there was enough content to do it.
So, we’re broadening our horizons, limited by the following principles:
I have to care about the topic.
I have to know enough about it to not sound stupid (hard!).
Especially looking forward to doing more tools-of-the-trade reviews! I did one recently on ggsql. There’s a ton of products, tools, techniques, etc that I’ve never really used because they weren’t used at prior jobs—or, they’re new—and it’d be fun to take a look at them.
I’ve got some initial ideas, but feel free to pitch me on tools to review! Including ones you wrote! (With the warning that I will say what I think of it. My rate for lying about how great your tool is $1 million. So readers should know that either I think the tool is really good or you paid me $1 million.)
Looking forward to the challenge! My current plan is to write the posts mainly over the weekend and schedule them throughout the week, but we’ll see how it evolves…
Zach
Connect at: https://linkedin.com/in/zlflynn
Looking forward to this journey!